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Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation is a specialty finance company dedicated to providing customized capital solutions to middle-market companies.

We are a closed-end, externally managed, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. In addition, we have elected to be treated as a regulated investment company for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., which serves as investment adviser to Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation, is a premier credit manager and leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented and risk-controlled approach to investments in distressed debt, corporate debt (including high yield debt and senior loans), control investing, convertible securities, real estate and listed equities. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the firm has over 900 employees and offices in 18 cities worldwide.

The firm’s competitive advantages include its experienced team of investment professionals, a global platform and a unifying investment philosophy. This investment philosophy, which consists of six tenets - risk control, consistency, market inefficiency, specialization, bottom-up analysis and disavowal of market timing - is complemented by a set of core business principles that articulate Oaktree’s commitment to excellence in investing, commonality of interests with clients, a collaborative and cooperative culture, and a disciplined but opportunistic approach to the expansion of investment strategies.

Our investment objective is to generate stable, current income through investments in first lien, floating-rate performing loans in both the broadly syndicated and private placement markets. To achieve this objective, we lend to middle-market companies with proven business models and strong fundamentals.

Our transfer agent, American Stock Transfer & Trust Company (AST), can help you with a variety of shareholder-related services such as change of address, account status and other administrative services. Please visit AST’s Shareholder Services or call (800) 937-5449 or (718) 921-8124.

You are a registered stockholder if you hold shares of Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation common stock registered in your name and you either hold a certificate representing such shares or such shares are held in book-entry form with our transfer agent, American Stock Transfer & Trust Company. If you purchased shares through a broker, bank or other intermediary, the shares might not be registered in your name but instead may be registered in the name of the broker, bank, or other intermediary (held in “street name”). Individual stockholders whose shares are held in street name should contact their registered investment adviser or broker for further information about their account(s).

Yes. We intend to distribute dividends or make distributions to shareholders of record on a quarterly basis. Please note that dividends may not continue at the current level, if at all. Please visit our Dividends page for historical dividend information.

We have elected to be treated as a regulated investment company (“RIC”) under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. As long as we qualify as a RIC, we will not be taxed on our investment company taxable income or realized net capital gains, to the extent that such taxable income or gains are distributed, or deemed to be distributed, to stockholders on a timely basis.

To maintain RIC tax treatment, we must, among other things, distribute, with respect to each taxable year, at least 90% of our investment company taxable income (i.e., our net ordinary income and our realized net short-term capital gains in excess of realized net long-term capital losses, if any).

As a regulated investment company, we generally do not pay income taxes on our earnings at the corporate level, but pass our income through to shareholders in the nature that it was earned. Therefore, a portion of our dividend is usually taxable to our shareholders at their ordinary income tax rates and a portion may qualify for the long-term capital gains tax rates. You should consult your own tax advisor for information about taxes with respect to the dividends you receive as an investor.

No. Our dividend is generally not a “qualified dividend” for tax purposes and therefore generally is not eligible for the lower qualified dividend tax rate. You should consult your own tax advisor for information about taxes with respect to the dividends you receive as an investor.

We have adopted a dividend reinvestment plan that provides for reinvestment of our dividends on behalf of our stockholders, unless a stockholder elects to receive cash.

No action will be required on the part of a registered stockholder to enroll and have his or her cash distributions reinvested in shares of our common stock. A registered stockholder may elect to receive an entire distribution in cash by notifying American Stock Transfer & Trust Company (AST), the plan administrator and our transfer agent, distribution paying agent and registrar, in writing so that such notice is received by the plan administrator no later than 10 days prior to the record date for the next dividend or distribution to stockholders.

Those stockholders whose shares are held by a broker or other financial intermediary may receive distributions in cash by notifying their broker or other financial intermediary of their election.

Participants may opt out and terminate their accounts under the plan one of three ways: